Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti named 2016 – 2017 Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at Bard College

Congratulations to Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, recipients of the 2016 – 2017 Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at Bard College.

Hilal and Petti, architects and critics based in Beit Sahour, Palestinian Territories, have been selected as the third winner of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Made possible through a five year-grant from the Keith Haring Foundation, the Haring Fellowship is an annual award for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at CCS Bard and the Human Rights Project. Their one-year appointment will begin in September 2016. Hilal and Petti succeed New Delhi–based artist and curator Shuddhabrata Sengupta who held the Fellowship during 2015-16.

For more information about Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, and the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College, please see the full CCS Bard announcement here.